Crime in rural Sweden

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-135

  Ceccato, Vânia ^a   Dolmen, Lars ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b The Swedish National Police Academy   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Countryside; GIS; Modelling; Regional patterns of crime; Thefts; Violence

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME; GIS; MODELING; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 78649443786     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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